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UN TED STATES PATENT A OFFICE.

JOSEPH PLAN'IE, OF LEVIS, QUEBEC, CANADA.

LUBRICAT ING COMPOSITION.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 357,227, dated FebruaryB, 1887.

- Application filed June 7, 1836. Serial No. 204,346. (No specimens.)

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, J osEPH PLANTE, of the town of Levis, Province of Quebec, Dominion A of Canada, have invented a new and Improved Lubricating Composition, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention consists in a composition of matter for lubricating the axles of railroadcars and for other lubricating purposes, the same being made up of powdered sulphur,

peat, (black earth taken from the bog,) and oil,

car-axles, for which it is mainly intended, the

peat advantageously replaces the cotton-waste saturated with oil, which has heretofore been used for such purpose, and which not infrequently becomes so dry that it takes fire, whereas the peat will always remain mixed with the oil. Furthermore, if, on account-of the bad or heated condition of the axles or the boxes in which they run, the oil should take fire, the sulphurous acid formed by the combustion of the sulphur in the composition would speedily extinguish the fire.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire'to secure by Letters Patent- The herein-described composition of matter to be used for lubricating car-axles and for other lubricating purposes, consisting of powdered sulphur, peat, and oil, substantially as and in the proportions specified.

JOSEPH PLANTE. 

